Crime in Cape Canaveral, Florida
Major crime in Cape Canaveral is 56% below the U.S. rate per resident: 40% lower for persons crimes and 59% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.4% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 49% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Cape Canaveral for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Cape Canaveral
The middle half of Cape Canaveral residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 28 and 52; the typical (median) resident's is 43.
- 0–5051.4%
- 50–10048.6%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 9.4% in a year; across Florida it fell 7.8%
Change in expected crimes, with Florida as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Cape Canaveral against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,524 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Cape Canaveral; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Cape Canaveral has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Cocoa Beach (4 mi), is 16% above Cape Canaveral's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Cape Canaveral
What are the most common crimes in Cape Canaveral?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 25 a year), aggravated assault (about 15 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 12 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 49% above the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Cape Canaveral's figures add up its 9 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Cape Canaveral has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 9,333. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Cape Canaveral, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/cape-canaveral
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Cocoa Beach4 mi51
- Cocoa10 mi155
- Cocoa West10 mi69
- Satellite Beach15 mi32
- Indian Harbour Beach17 mi33
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- Indialantic21 mi48